Esther Schindler writes: "Young whippersnappers might imagine that Computer Science degrees — and the term "computer science" — have been around forever. But they were invented, after all, and early programmers couldn't earn a college degree in something that hadn't been created yet. (The year I went to Brandeis, 1975, was the first in which one could major in CompSci; before then, anyone learning programming got a degree in Physics.)